Quotes About Wisdom

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.

Only time will tell if it was time well-spent

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."